Song Quotes · Page 671

There's no real personality in the band that can be pushed to do anything that they don't want to. We are four…

— John Dolmayan

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

— Brian Setzer

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

— Rob Marshall

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

SOLO' is a fun, self-loving song. Through it, I wanted to show different sides of me.

— Jennie

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

— Robert Plant

When I was seven, I sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' in assembly and the teachers were crying because it was so emotional!

— Arlo Parks

Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like…

— Bill Mallonee

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes…

— Jennifer Warnes

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to…

— Ani DiFranco

I always say - half-joking but serious, too - that when little boys are day dreaming of cool-sounding jobs 'when they grow…

— Josh Freese

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being…

— Philip Selway

My favorite song to write was a song called "Always" I wrote it about a girl who, at the time, I had…

— Riker Lynch

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are…

— A. R. Rahman

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But…

— Benmont Tench

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

— Boris Pasternak

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy…

— Larry Coryell

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had…

— Chris Kamara

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

— Peter Asher

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

— John Legend

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet…

— Victor Wooten

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

— Deana Carter

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

— Ray Charles

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

— Steve Stoute

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

— Mandy Patinkin

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

— Tony Bennett

I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years…

— Snoop Dogg

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

— Dan Fogelberg

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

— Jeff Beck

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

— Greg Lake

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that…

— Jimi Hendrix

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

— Angel Haze

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.

— Mike Will Made It

“Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you…

— Neil Gaiman

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

— Jon Pareles

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With…

— Billy Corgan

Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it.

— Jihae